Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. Catalogue - Page 1041873 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
| 576 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making ahappy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
| 1835 - 538 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the... | |
| 1835 - 542 pages
...religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Qive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it,...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the... | |
| 1838 - 544 pages
...gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with... | |
| 1838 - 274 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
| 1838 - 272 pages
...of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him... | |
| 1840 - 504 pages
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and yon can hardly fail of adding to his happiness; you make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...of religious principles ; but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. 2. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying...man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most preverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society of every period of history... | |
| 1859 - 886 pages
...panoply of religious principles, but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hand a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period... | |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1846 - 556 pages
...its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying...a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the... | |
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